Named for a village in the Tambov (now Lipetsk) region in Russia, the birthplace of the discoverer’s parents, Stepan Semenovich Chernykh (1904–1942) and Melaniya Petrovna Chernykh (1910–1977). (M 20836) _ _.
Discovered on 24-9-1976 in Nauchnyj by Chernykh, N. S.